Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Feature – Part 6

The Girls of Paradise … Sasha and Nicole
By Mickey Spagnola
Dallas Cowboys Star Magazine
(by way of DallasCowboysCheerleaders.com)
July 11, 2011

Now it’s one thing to be a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, but how about being a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and a fulltime teacher?

First-year veterans Sasha Agent and Nicole Bulcher know all about that. Nicole is a fulltime teaching assistant at a middle school, where she helps instruct seven ESL classes – English as a Second Language – along with becoming the Step Club advisor. She considers herself quite fortunate to have landed this job after making the DCC and moving from her hometown of Twin Falls, Idaho.

She puts in the same hours as a regular teacher, then turns into a cheerleader after school, a side of her life she tried to keep from her students.

“I tried my best to hide the fact I’m a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader from everyone,” Nicole says. “Until the first faculty meeting when the principal, bless her heart, she was so excited to have me, put it in our newsletter that went home to the parents the first week.”

And before she knew it, thanks to that and telling the members of her Step Club she had cheerleading experience, it was “Ms. Bulcher, are you really a cheerleader?”

Sasha tried the same thing at her middle school, where she teaches special education classes, and also failed miserably at keeping her DCC status a secret. Hey, kids talk.

But there is yet another side to this Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader that made every day of the 2010 football season, her first with the DCC, seem like a 200 mph lap around the Texas Motor Speedway. Sasha also is a fulltime mother to a five-year-old daughter.

Talk about a juggling act.

“I definitely wear many hats right now in my life,” Sasha says, followed by a self-deprecating giggle, “so life is overwhelming, I’m not going to lie. But when you love what you do in all avenues – I love being a mom, my daughter loves that I’m a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and my love is to dance. And then I also get to use what I majored in and get to teach my kids.”

Let all of that sink in and you further understand what’s probably coming next when you ask the 28-year-old to provide what a typical day in her life was like during her inaugural season with the DCC after moving to the area from the West Coast. The first thing she does is smile before saying, “Whew � are you sure about that?”

“I try to do everything at night to get myself prepared, getting clothes, getting showered, getting my daughter’s clothes ready, getting my lunch ready – my little lunch box for school. I definitely have to be organized, and that also falls into practice clothes because I’m going to have practice pretty much right after I get out of school.

“So I wake up in the morning, and we’re talking last minute because I need every second of sleep that I can get, get myself ready, get my daughter ready for school, and we take off, drop her off at school, and I head around the corner to my school and get prepared for the day, start up the overhead, check email, get my lessons ready, make sure I know what I’m doing for the day. Then do my little hallway duty, then teach my first period and it goes all the way through seventh period. And, I must throw in, if it’s during the football season I will utilize my lunchtime to practice.

“Then after school is over, and remember the teachers have to stay after a little later than the students, I pack up my things to leave, get my daughter from school and head home, and that’s when I get ready for practice, get my bags ready and make sure I know what I’m doing. I usually will cook on the weekends or my husband will cook or try to utilize our leftovers, especially during the season. Then head to practice, and practice until Judy (Trammell, squad choreographer) says we’re done, and that could be very late, and start the cycle all over again. As tired as I am, I have to get my stuff ready or I’ll suffer in the morning.

“That’s the typical day of Sasha.”

Whew, wears you out just listening. So any time for fun?

“My fun is exactly what I do and any days off I have I definitely spend with my daughter,” she says.

So Sasha, the week of the calendar shoot, who’s teaching all those subjects over seven periods?

“This week Ms. Agent has a substitute,” she says, laughing.